The Doctor Who world tour hits Rio... I am slightly worried at this point that the BBC is planning some sort of global takeover on Saturday. We'll all wake up Monday morning and have to send them 10% of our earnings and salute a foreign flag.

The "dark Doctor" has led the Beeb to repost all the darker moments from the series all over the place... RC, you and I need to sit down and watch Family of Blood. It's basically Doctor Who meets Maynard Gordon.

Been reading the reviews of the opener. Critics love it, but fans seem lukewarm.

Yeah...I talked about that a few pages back when they all leaked. Deep Breath is universally hated by the fans. But ity a post regeneration episode. Doctors 3, 5, and 10 spent their first episode asleep!

But in any case, Capaldi totally steals the episode, puts it in his pocket throws it around, and then steals it again. Tons of moments like him speaking the thoughts of the dinosaur, stealing the horse from a carriage, pouring a drink while telling Half-Face Man that he's afraid he'll have to kill him... he's just perfect. And he's channeling Tom Baker's aggressively weird, baffled-but-rude performance, which is just the best thing ever.

Purely for Capaldi's bravura performance, I'm 100 percent excited for Doctor Who all over again.